Seattle Mystery Bookshop

December 1949 issue

included Cornell Woolrich’s “Vampire’s Honeymoon”

January 1956 subscription issue – different cover from the newsstand issue

[post updated 1/1/24]

cover art by Robert McGinnis

cover art by H.J. Ward

[cover updated 11/18/25]

cover art by R.C. Wardell

better image than previously posted

Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”

better image than previously posted

his 3rd novel, a tale of municipal corruption, published two years before his first Lew Archer

Michael Clarke Duncan as the crime lord and Marvel Comics villain

cover art by Malvin Singer

better image than previously posted

[image updated 4/21/24]